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It's a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't scenario. Allow it to exist as a giant company town, or make them submit to the fascist state?

This part is the real shocker. People are talking about Russia planning to erect their own Great Firewall to cut them off from any non-state-approved information, but apparently they've already had one for a good long while.

At what point do we just straight-up admit the legal system is fundamentally broken? Like, there have to be plenty of countries where he wouldn't be allowed to do this stuff, right? And not just the third-world ones where people have no rights.

Getting drunk on the job, what are they, airline pilots?

Todd's gone all the way back to 1970 this time, with a song I first discovered in 2009 when the oldies station finally started adding '70s music to their lineup. I had no idea it was written by the same guy as "Build Me Up, Buttercup", i.e. the catchiest song ever created, but it tracks...

My only experience with emulators is the kind that run on PCs, and I don't know if my reaction time is good enough to even judge if there's input lag or not. That said, I've heard that some of the worst lag tends to come from the TV; for a long time, flatscreen TVs have been infamous for having...

Just heard that Germany is buying a bunch of fighter planes from the US. Our actual military might not be doing anything, but the military-industrial complex will be eating good tonight. Comment on the r/news thread that I found amusing:

I laughed.

And we should let them go, and block them from coming back.

Still wouldn't discount the possibility that Musk intends to throw the match. Or that he will once the oligarchs make a counter offer.

Only "might"? Have we forgotten the half-decade worth of memes about how swole Putin actually is under the suit? At this point the only two possibilities are that Musk will get curb stomped... and that Putin will go easy on him but narrowly beat him anyway because they've secretly been planning...

Isn't this the same guy who also mocked people on Twitter for supporting Ukraine just today?

More like "Why didn't we" because overhauling an entire city the way he's describing would probably be an insane amount of work and probably require either the cooperation of most of the real-estate owners, or trying to exercise eminent domain against all of them. Like, I get the envy...

Maybe I should wipe my old LiveJournal while I still have the ability to log into it. It's probably going to disappear from the real internet either way.

Everything I know about Penders I learned from that one "Tell them about Ken Penders!" Linkara skit, and I've forgotten most of it. The short story, as I recall, is that he wrote a bunch of stuff for Archie, either quit or was fired, sued them claiming that he owned the rights to everything he'd...

Considering how many black celebrities (for varying definitions of "celebrity") there are in the US, the fact that you never hear about any of them getting killed by cops is kind of a miracle in general. Then again, there were a lot of rappers in the '90s that were allegedly killed by rivals...

"We aren't going to attack Ukraine with nuclear weapons, but they have a lot of nuclear power plants... sure would be a shame if they all just happened to suffer a catastrophic meltdown at the same time."

Implying that the UN is required to do anything, ever, regardless of what they call a thing.

Implying most Russians ever bought their games legit in the first place. The big reason Steam has regional pricing is so they can sell dirt-cheap and try to compete with piracy in countries like Russia and Brazil where it was already the norm. That said, being locked out of the official servers...

YouTube doesn't pay squat anymore. They don't have to. What are people going to do, go somewhere else? At this point, you have to pay them for the privilege of not interrupting your videos for two minutes of commercials every minute.